"Save the Newchurch
Guinea Pigs campaign fought for six years to close down a farm in Newchurch,
Staffordshire, where guinea pigs were being bred for vivisection. Our
aim from the outset was to stop the suffering of these gentle creatures
at source, firstly by preventing them from being bred in appalling unsanitary
and overcrowded conditions, and secondly - as a direct consequence - to
stop them ending up in the vivisectors laboratory where they would be
tortured to death.

That goal has now been achieved.
Newchurch Guinea Pig Farm announced a couple of months ago that after
35 years, they had decided to throw in the towel in final capitulation
to the pressure from animal rights campaigners’ six years’
of legal protest. Their announcement to the media invoked the usual bias
in favour of the oppressors, portraying the farm's owners as long-suffering
victims. What was not mentioned was the fact that the family had raked
in huge profits from the suffering of innocent creatures, and that it
was, in fact, the guinea pigs who had suffered, destined to either die
in filthy, overcrowded sheds, or - if they survived long enough to be
sold on for vivisection - to join the countless victims sacrificed to
a barbaric and flawed scientific practice.

With the welcome announcement
by the farm, our part has effectively run its course in that part of the
country. However if the family do decide to go back on their statement,
the campaign will once again swing back into action. Therefore, for the
foreseeable future the family's business operations will be closely monitored,
until we are completely satisfied that they don’t intend to renege
on their promises.

So what next for SGNP? After
a consultation period during which many views were considered, it has
been decided that the SNGP will be giving all their resources acquired
over the last six years to the SPEAK campaign. We believe that Oxford
has become one of the main areas in the battle to end vivisection in this
country, and that it is absolutely imperative that the Oxford University
laboratory is never built. We therefore ask that all our supporters join
us in backing the SPEAK campaign.

SPEAK have a proven track record
of success. They successfully prevented the building of a new vivisection
laboratory in Cambridge, and little more than a few months later brought
work on the Oxford laboratory to a grinding halt for over 17 months. With
the right amount of resources and support, animal rights campaigners can
make sure this campaign will be our next victory – one which will
bring us a step closer towards the total abolition of vivisection in this
country.

And finally, SNGP
would like to thank everyone who supported us over the last six years.
Now its time to face the next challenge and finish the job once and for
all!"